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The survey for Malaysian blog readers and bloggers ends tomorrow, at 23:59, 30 Dec 2006. Do participate if you haven't yet! Click for the English Version / Versi Bahasa Malaysia .

2005 - Kempen belog dalam BM - initiated by Vincent Lau . 72 bloggers blogged in Malay in the spirit of National Day. 2006 - Project Happy Malaysia - initiated by Vincent Lau . The theme was "heart warming stories about Malaysia". 40 bloggers contributed their stories . 2007 - 50 Posts to Independence - initiated by Nizam Bashir . The idea is to tag one blogger who will tag the next, to post an entry on "anything that makes Malaysia special to that person". A total of 50 bloggers will be tagged in sequence. Each blogger has up to 7 days to make a post. To date, 13 bloggers have contributed, as kept track by Sharizal .

I have found a blog on Malaysian civil society movements. At Bangkit.net , Malaysian NGOs get to post their events on a common platform. Indeed, according to the About page, the site caters to the general public as audiences, and activist organizations as propagators. For the general public, this site will hopefully offer an easy way for anyone interested to see what various civil society organizations are saying and working on in Malaysia. For activist organizations, bangkit.net was set up to be an additional platform and medium for getting their various messages across. I have yet to find the list of organizations participating in this blog, but at first glance, the blog houses a number of prominent NGOs, such as: Amnesty International Malaysia Suaram Sisters in Islam Centre of Independent Journalism Jaringan Rakyat Tertindas Youth4Change Gabungan Rakyat Menentang FTA America-Malaysia Areas of interest are categorized by category, ranging from civil liberties to environment. They ev...

You can access it here . I am planning to publicize it in the Malay blogosphere. Rushing out for an interview with A. Kadir Jasin .

The Malay version is out! Managed to translate it with the help of two of my classmates, Nor Azmi and Noorun. I haven't launched it into my3q yet, but here it is in Microsoft Word . Comments are appreciated!

I was busy for the past two days attending the conference on "Shaping Public Opinion in a Changing Media Environment" at Crown Princess Hotel. It was a truly big event, as illustrated comprehensively in Jeff's latest post on "Why fight Internet as an outsider?" covering the profiles of those who came. The event was a great networking opportunity, as I snapped up 3 interviews with A. Kadir Jasin , Teresa Kok and Steven Gan, Malaysiakini 's editor. This neatly sums up my interviewee count to 10. Prof Wan Zawawi, my thesis supervisor, also strongly recommended an interview with Rustam A. Sani , a revered academician - so I will probably call him too. Latest survey respondent count: 360. Tony Pua whom I met again in the conference suggested a Malay version of the survey to reach out to Malay bloggers and blog readers, so I will probably be working on that very soon. Lastly, here's one bit of information for you to chew on - at the conference today, Sessi...

This is probably old news to some, but I'm going to put it here for archiving purposes anyway. One day after the previous post on China planning to register its bloggers, The Star (3 Dec 2006) reports: "Cyber law mulled to block lies in blogs" by Hah Foong Lian SITIAWAN : Registering bloggers may be a “stricter” way to stop cyberspace writers from spreading disharmony and lies. Acknowledging that the registration of bloggers was a difficult task, Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha said that it needed the cooperation of other countries. Kong said: “We need to have stricter cyber laws to prevent these bloggers from disseminating disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies. “We are talking about creating cyber laws to control those who misuse the Internet,” he added. Kong noted that the high number of bloggers in the country was a good development if they used the Internet constructively. However, he said, some of them woul...

According to The Star (1 December 2006), Pg W53 - China is looking into adopting a real-name system, where people will be required to submit their real name and IC number when they register for services like "blogs or BBS account". Netizens will be able to continue choosing their own online name, and as long as they do not violate laws their personal information will remain private and safe. The first area for a real name application will be blogs , a popular form of Internet-based diary. The reason? Blogs have been used by some people to infringe upon other people's privacy and rights. For example, an infamous TV host had thousands of netizens visit her blog just because she wrote an article about a well-known TV anchor's marriage history, which included some allegedly false information. As a blogger's real name is unknown, it is very difficult to safeguard privacy and rights. A blog research panel, under the Ministry of Information Industry, will "provide s...